bogey

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. An evil or mischievous spirit; a hobgoblin.

n. A cause of annoyance or harassment.

n. Sports The number of strokes that a good player is likely to need to finish a golf hole or course.

n. Sports A golf score of one stroke over par.

n. Slang An unidentified flying aircraft.

n. Slang A detective or police officer.

transitive v. Sports To play (a hole in golf) scoring one stroke over par.

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n. The Devil.

n. An object of terror; a bugbear.

n. One of two sets of wheels under a train car.

n. A piece of solid or semisolid mucus in or removed from the nostril.

n. A representative specimen, taken from the centre a spread of production - a sample with bogey (typical) characteristics.

n. a standard of performance set up as a mark to be aimed at in competition.

n. An unidentified aircraft, especially as observed as a spot on a radar screen, and often suspected to be hostile. (Also sometimes used as a synonym for bandit - an enemy aircraft)

n. A score of one over par in golf.

v. To make a bogey.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A goblin; a bugbear.

n. a score one stroke over par for a hole; formerly, the definition of bogey was the same as that now used for par, i.e., an ideal score or number of strokes, for each hole, against which players compete; -- it was said to be so called because assumed to be the score of an imaginary first-rate player called Colonel Bogey. Now the standard score is called par.

n. an unidentified aircraft; in combat situations, such craft not identified as friendly are assumed to be hostile.

Paul Casey shot a 72 and was at 5-over 215 with Stephen Ames (73), Justin Rose (73) and Bubba Watson (75), who made a triple bogey from the left side of the ninth green but steadied himself with pars and a lone bogey the rest of the way.

You go through the different floors of that factory and come to where they are making big electrical generators and you see guards around with their rifles because Russia's bogey is that somebody is trying to copy them all the time and steal their secrets.